Thank you so much for the explanation. Much appreciated.

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 8:17 PM Joakim Erdfelt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jetty has no restrictions on Request body content based on Method type
> (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc).
>
> The only complication is if the request uses `Expect: 100-continue`
> See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-5.1.1
> But even then, the request body content MUST be on the immediately
> following 100 request.
>
> The only methods with special meaning on Jetty are HEAD (which cannot have
> a Response body)
> and TRACE (which is disabled on WebApps, and causes a "405 Method Not
> Allowed")
>
> Now, that being said, having body content on GET is undefined.
> See https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.1
>
>    A payload within a GET request message has no defined semantics;
>    sending a payload body on a GET request might cause some existing
>    implementations to reject the request.
>
>
> DELETE method is in the same boat.
> See: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-4.3.5
>
> It also has the same warning.
>
>    A payload within a DELETE request message has no defined semantics;
>    sending a payload body on a DELETE request might cause some existing
>    implementations to reject the request.
>
>
> This means that if you have a HTTP intermediary (proxy server, firewall,
> gateway, load balancer, caching server, etc)
> any of those intermediaries can also reject the GET request with body
> content.
> We see this quite often.
>
> We also see various Http Client implementations enforcing this no body on
> GET / DELETE requests.
> This is also not Jetty rejecting those requests, it's the client.
>
> Joakim Erdfelt / [email protected]
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:53 AM Sonali Dasgupta <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is a question, regarding a requirement we have in our project, to
>> send a request body with a DELETE HTTP request. Various sources cite that
>> the Jetty server rejects the request body for a DELETE/GET request. Please
>> explain in depth how the jetty server handles the request body in these
>> cases ?
>>
>>
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